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An earthquake, on Sunday morning, shook Dominica with many residents taking to social media to say they were jolted by it.<\/p>\n
The UWI Seismic Reasearch Center (SRC), which monitors earthquakes around the region, said it took place at 7:31 am.<\/p>\n
It measured 4.9 on the Richter Scale at a depth of of 10 kilometers.<\/p>\n
The epicenter was located 95 kilometers east of Roseau, 98 kilometers north east of Fort-de-France, Martinique, and 149 north-north east of Castries, Saint Lucia.<\/p>\n
Online reports suggest the tremor was felt in all three of the islands.<\/p>\n
The Eastern Caribbean has been shaken by several earthquake in recent times.<\/p>\n
In explaining the phenomenon, the SRC said the region experiences thousands of earthquakes a year because \u201cthe Lesser Antilles arc is a subduction zone setting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile most of these events are not felt, moderate to significant-sized events may impact the region at anytime,\u201d the organization said in early December following a series of back-to-back quakes which left people across the region concerned. \u201cMany of the events occurring overnight have been located in the northeastern section of the arc, in the area known to have generated our largest earthquake, on 08 February, 1843.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SCRC said it has always maintained that the region can experience large earthquakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the historical records, we should have a large magnitude earthquake every 100 years or so. The last event of that magnitude was in 1843,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An earthquake, on Sunday morning, shook Dominica with many residents taking to social media to say they were jolted by it. The UWI Seismic Reasearch Center (SRC), which monitors earthquakes around the region, said it took place at 7:31 am….","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":314600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n